In WV, Coal mines were the only action going around. What other occupations were these coal miners to do? Maybe learn to make computer keyboards? Maybe we import brown people to do the work because they are compliant and don’t mind being paid in peanuts and corn and if you loose several dozen in a shaky mine accident..who cares? Yeah...that’s the ticket. I will grant that during the Mine Wars there were despicable acts performed by both sides
For the older coal miners, go to work for a better mining company. For their children, leave WV and look for work elsewhere, doing something different. I don't have the same occupation that my parents did.